Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev ( ; 4 October 1890, Hrodna

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 - 4 September 1962, Moscow

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) was a Russian

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 zoologist and entomologist.

Beklemishev began his career at Saint Petersburg University

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 . In 1918 he moved to Perm

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 where he held the post of a docent

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 at the recently opened Perm University

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, becoming professor of the same university in 1920. After 1932 he was the head of the Division of Entomology of the Institute of Malaria

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 and Medical Parasitology in Moscow (now the Institute of Medical Parasitology

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 and Tropical Medicine (IM). After 1934 he became the professor of the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy of Moscow State University

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Beklemishev was an active member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMN)
(1945) and Polish AN

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 (1949), an Honoured Scientist OF THE RSFSR (1947) and twice received the Stalin Prize award (1944, 1952).

Selected works

• The basis of the comparative anatomy of the invertebrates (1944,1950,1964).
• Medical entomology (1949).
• The basis of comparative parasitology. Medical Science. (1976)(first published?).
• Methodology of systematics. KMK Scientific Press Ltd. (1994).(first published?)

Sources

• Literature Biologists. Biographical reference book. Kiev: Naukova Dumka
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  . 1984. *Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemiwev. Medical parasitology and parasitic diseases.